What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I tell you what I want you to do but because I articulate and justify what you want to do.

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.

Art is as useful as bread.